Life — October 2, 1919 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

> Binds L “HOW FUNNY! I1’s A HORSE, ISN'T 1T, PAPA?” “ WELL—NOT ESPECIALLY.” Some Open Letters To Japan. to China and tell them how sorry you D AR JAPA: We have duly re- are to rob them of their province? ceived your ultimatum about Shan- Mr. Hearst sends love. tung, and, considering all the circum- Cordially and humbly yours, | stances, we are obliged to accede to it, . Lire. But we hope that you will be kind to 70 George Gould, Esq. poor old China and not rub it in too EAR SIR: I notice that you have much. It makes us feel easier in our been deposed as the chief executor minds to have you say that you mean of your father’s estate, on the ground , no harm and that, some time in the that you have misapplied the energies | sweet by’ and by, you are going to which should have been directed for give Shantung back where it belongs. the benefit of others, and have em- at We love to trust everybody, and al- ployed these energies more to your though we went into the war ostensi- bly to make the world free for dear old Democracy, we appreciate the fact that there is a practical side and that we must always yield to pressure, when the pressure going is as good as you have made it. Won't you please, just to case our feelings, write a nice note i own advantage than the court has deemed desirable. I also notice that the large newspapers have generally avoided commenting upon your case, preferring to remain silent about these matters of high finance. Yet may it not well be that this delicate consider- ation for your feelings is also mis- 581 applied? And should they not have praised you freely? The philosophers, Mr. Gould, have long since been of the practically unanimous opinion that money is bad, not only ‘for the diges- tion but aracter. It for the cl pro- motes greed and selfishness, and ren- ders unfit for the common humanity th Insincerely yours, uses ¢ se who have it in excess. To Senator James WW’. Wadsworth, Jr. Y DEAR SENATOR: As chair- man of the Committee on Mili- tary Affairs I have read with con- siderable interest, not unmixed with concern, your recent statement to the effect that for all practical purposes we actually have no air service. Con- sidering the fact that over two billions of money have been spent on the air service and that we have nothing to show for it, this would seem at first blush to mark a distinct advance over all other experiments in government control and ownership. There is still something left of the railroads and telephones, even after the government has been controlling them. It must be remembered, however, that both the railroads and telephones under private ownership had a pretty fair start be- fore the government got hold of them, whereas the air service was planted by the government itself, so that, after all, the comparison is hardly a fair one, Give the railroads and telephones a little more time, s they Crook (under arres KIN I GO BACK AN’ GIT ME MAT? Officer. CERTAINLY Nor. Ye CAN'T BE RUNNING AWAY PROM ME THAT WAY, YOU STAND HERE WHERE YE AN’ ONLL GO BACK AN’ GIT THE MAT. ARE, comicbooks.com